Galileo Project
“The order of the eye”
Interdisciplinary performance
early music | electronic music | storytelling and videoart
inspired by Galileo Galilei
SUBJECT
Alessandra Rossi Lürig e Gianmaria Sortino
VIDEO, DIRECTION, EDITING
Gianmaria Sortino
MUSIC BY
V. Galilei, M. Galilei, C. Monteverdi, A. Grandi, C. Malvezzi, G. B. Fontana, F. Turini, S. Rossi, B. Marini
PERFORMED BY
Cristina Fanelli, Accademia d’Arcadia
VOICE
Christian La Rosa
VOCALISTS
Paolo Borgonovo, Leo Moreno, Renato Cadel
SOUND EDITOR
Sofia Costantini
PRODUCTION
© 2016 Fondazione Arcadia e Habanero
PREMIÈRE
24/09/2016
Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza
“Conversazioni”, 69° ciclo di spettacoli classici del Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza 2016
RAPPRESENTAZIONI
06/04/2019
Basilica di San Teonisto, Treviso
Almamusica433, “Musica antica in casa Cozzi”, in cooperation with Fondazione Benetton
The project
« … Shall we not admire a musician who, by singing and representing to us quarrels and passions of a lover, would move us to compassion of him, much more than if he did so by crying?… And all the more we would admire him, if by keeping silent, with his instrument only, by dissonances and musical accents full of pathos, he was able to do so… »
(Galileo – Letter to Lodovico Cardi, June 1612, Works, vol. XI)
The Order Of The Eye is a performance project inspired by the figure of Galileo Galilei through an Early Music | electronic music | narration and video-art concert.
Our aim is to give new perspective of the figure of Galileo as a man, not only as a genial scientist and father of modern European thinking, but also as an extremely skilled musician, son of Vincenzo Galilei, a famous composer and theorist, author of treatises, who together with the members of the Florentine Camerata contributed to the birth of the new style of Monody and the development of the science of musical acoustics.
Galileo is a figure caught in the middle of two revolutions: the scientific revolution in a strict sense, and a musical revolution.
These two cannot be separated in the life of Galileo, and we wish to narrate this aspect: how science and music are for Galileo the true voice of the “great book of Nature” that is the Universe explored through observation, experimenting and reasoning, also thanks to the teaching of his father: THE ORDER OF THE EYE.
To illustrate this vision, in addition to the music of the Galilei family and their contemporaries, video images inspired by Galileo, live electronics and a narrating voice reading Galileo’s texts all concur together.